| Type | construction |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | length |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | long |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | happiness |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | happy |
| Definition | a construction that expresses reference to property concepts. Examples: length (< long), happiness (< happy) are examples of the property referring phrase construction. Property reference is very rare in discourse, little described in reference grammars, and little studied in typology, so they are not further discussed here. (Section 2.2.5) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 2.2.5 |
| Subtype of | referring phrase |
The Model of Comparative concepts for Constructicon Alignment (MoCCA; Lorenzi et al. 2024) proposes to connect constructions across and within languages using Comparative Concepts as a shared base of comparison. It adopts the set of Comparative Concepts provided by Croft (2022).
Croft, William. 2022. Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World’s Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/morphosyntax/1AAB4F5F9C553F675170DCA3F03F82E2#contents. (14 October, 2025).
Lorenzi, Arthur, Peter Ljunglöf, Ben Lyngfelt, Tiago Timponi Torrent, William Croft, Alexander Ziem, Nina Böbel, Linnéa Bäckström, Peter Uhrig & Ely E Matos. 2024. MoCCA: A Model of Comparative Concepts for Aligning Constructicons. In Proceedings of the 20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation @ LREC-COLING 2024, 93–98. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.isa-1.12/. (22 July, 2025).
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